One of the longest-running projects on Channel One is the “Wait for me” show. Over the years of its existence, several leading ones have been replaced. Despite this, the program has not lost its popularity.
What is the transmission about?
With the help of the project, people who are long gone are wanted, and even law enforcement agencies cannot find them. After many years, children meet with their parents, close relatives and good friends are found.
Stories are amazing when people have not seen each other for decades and are found here. It is difficult to find another program in which so many positive emotions are concentrated.
The popularity of the project is also determined by the quality work of employees. Who is waiting for me? Over the years, the “faces” of the program have changed several times. But each time they were chosen specifically for the project concept.
The first host of the program "Wait for me"
In 1998, a program was launched on the RTR channel. The leaders were Oksana Naychuk and Igor Kvasha. Then the broadcast continued on Channel One, and Maria Shukshina joined the famous actor.
For many years they lived together the story of each guest. The audience could not imagine that the program would be someone else. Maria Shukshina and Igor Kvasha became the standard of the project.
In 2005, the actress goes on maternity leave and gives birth to twins Thomas and Foku. She understands that she needs time for the kids to grow up, and she cannot immediately go to work. Who is waiting for me at this time?
Until March 2006, she replaced Maria Chulpan Khamatova. In the same period, Igor Kvasha could not work for several months, and Alexander Domogarov came to replace him. The actor admitted that conducting a program of this format is very difficult morally, he takes off his hat to non-replaceable presenters.
Igor Kvasha in "Wait for me"
This legendary actor lived a difficult life, so he took each story of the hero of the program so close to heart. Igor Vladimirovich was born in 1933 in a family of intellectuals. My father was a researcher, and my mother was a sign teacher.
The actor’s childhood was in the war years. He well remembered how much grief the Great Patriotic War brought to families. Father himself died in the war. Therefore, he was especially reverent in the transmission of stories related to that terrible period.
From 1956 to 2005 he played at the Sovremennik Theater. Igor Vladimirovich still managed to work on the radio and starred in films. Also, the actor actively participated in their scoring. In total, more than 70 films were released, in which you can see this actor.
Kvasha left the project “Wait for me” just a few months before his death. The legendary actor died on August 30, 2012 at the 80th year of his life. He suffered from lung disease for a long time.
Maria Shukshina
For many years, moral and physical strength, this actress devoted work to the project. She worried about each participant in the program, often on the air it was possible to see tears on her face.
The actress was born in the family of the famous director Vasily Shukshin and Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina. Already at the age of one and a half years, the girl first participated in the filming of the film. Therefore, besides acting, she could not imagine another career, although she learned to be a translator.
She starred in more than 40 films and played a large number of roles in the theater. Maria Shukshina dedicated the program “Wait for me” for about 15 years and left the project in 2014. She admitted that she was mentally exhausted and decided to redirect her forces to shooting films, to devote herself more to her family and her recently born grandson.
Who else led the program?
Throughout the entire broadcast transmission on Channel One, several leading ones were replaced for various reasons. Often Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha could not participate in the filming due to health reasons. Mary went on maternity leave.
In one of these periods, Mikhail Efremov replaced Kwache. Then, until 2012, he worked alternately with Igor Vladimirovich. After the death of the main presenter, Efremov stayed in the project for another 2 years and left. In his place was the actor Alexander Galibin.
Who leads the program “Wait for me” after the departure of Maria Shukshina? Ksenia Alferova replaced her project. Together with Galibin, they worked until August 2017. Then, unfortunately, Channel One did not renew the contract with the project, and the broadcast of the program was stopped.
The program "Wait for me" on NTV
Since the end of October, the project goes on another channel. The host program “Wait for me” has changed again. Now viewers will see on the screens Julia Vysotskaya and Sergey Shakurov. The concept of transmission will not change.
Viewers will see a spacious updated studio and all the same real life stories of people that are sometimes difficult to believe. It was decided to reveal the secrets of the process of searching for the missing and to show how the "Wait for me" center works.
Another host will appear in the updated project, who has long led the search team "Lisa Alert". Grigory Sergeev will tell how difficult it is to find a person about whom there is no information for many years.
The new presenters, Yulia Vysotskaya and Sergey Shakurov ("Wait for me"), after filming the first issues with their participation, admitted that it is emotionally difficult to live the stories of program guests. But they are sure that the hope of meeting with dear people should help to live on and move forward.
Viewers of the program after watching it understand that in the world there is still a place for a miracle and true love. The first issues on NTV have already been aired, and discussions have begun on some changes in the broadcast. Some people like the new version, but others are not happy with something. But the main thing is that the project continues to live on and people meet after many years of separation. And whoever broadcasts "Wait for Me" on NTV will no longer be a secret.